The Citizens United v. FEC United States Supreme Court decision in January of 2010 historically ruled that donating money to political causes is considered free speech under the constitution, and that corporations are people, thus giving them a constitutional right to donating money under the First Amendment. The ruling opened the floodgates for huge amounts of money into the US political syste...

Article history: Received 24 November 2011 Received in revised form 9 August 2013 Accepted 13 August 2013 Available online 27 August 2013 I study firmswith past asbestos ties that suffer from significant increases in legal liabilities after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 1999. This event provides a natural experiment setting to estimate the indirect effects of financial distress on real activit...

providing emergent care, we hope to raise the collective responsiveness to the needs of the public. Mr Fesnak and Dr Rajput express concerns about physicians’ professional responsibility to promote fair and ethical stewardship of health care resources. Physicians may be uncomfortable with their role when they define their professional responsibilities from the narrow perspective of the physicia...

Enlargement of Lie super algebra B(0, 1) was given firstly. Then nonlinear super integrable couplings of the super classical Boussinesq hierarchy based upon this enlarged matrix Lie super algebra were constructed secondly. And its super Hamiltonian structures were established by using super trace identity thirdly. As its reduction, special integrable couplings of classical Boussinesq hierarchy ...

decreasing water loss and increasing the irrigation times are basic methods to develop agriculture, success in natural recourse projects, minimize the stress to planted bushes in natural fields and increase the productivity of soil and water sources. the use of super absorbent is one of these strategies to achieve these goals. the main purpose of this research was to study the effect of super a...

tomato, lycopersicum esculentum miller, is a grassy and annual plant from solanaceae family which is the most important farm plant after potato. the cotton-melon aphid, aphis gossypii glover (hem.: aphididae), is an important pests of tomato and vector of viral diseases in the farms and greenhouses. in the greenhouse its damage ranks second to the whiteflies (bemisia tabaci gennadius). in this ...

The FUL (featurally underspecified lexicon) system of automatic speech recognition is based on the representation of words in the lexicon with underspecified distinctive features. The speech signal is converted from the waveform into an online spectral representation made up of LPC formants and a few parameters describing the overall spectral shape. These spectral parameters are converted into ...